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Recent multimodal large language models have shown promising ability in generating humorous captions for images, yet they still lack stable control over explicit cultural context, making it difficult to jointly maintain image relevance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Run Xu , Lu Li , Rongzhao Zhang , Jie Xu

Recent retrieval-augmented image captioning methods incorporate external knowledge to compensate for the limitations in comprehending complex scenes. However, current approaches face challenges in relation modeling: (1) the representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xiaosheng Long , Hanyu Wang , Zhentao Song , Kun Luo , Hongde Liu

Audio captioning aims at generating natural language descriptions for audio clips automatically. Existing audio captioning models have shown promising improvement in recent years. However, these models are mostly trained via maximum…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

The task of image captioning aims to generate captions directly from images via the automatically learned cross-modal generator. To build a well-performing generator, existing approaches usually need a large number of described images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yang Yang , Hongchen Wei , Hengshu Zhu , Dianhai Yu , Hui Xiong , Jian Yang

Automatically generating textual descriptions for massive unlabeled images on the web can greatly benefit realistic web applications, e.g. multimodal retrieval and recommendation. However, existing models suffer from the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Linli Yao , Weijing Chen , Qin Jin

Physical adversarial attacks in driving scenarios can expose critical vulnerabilities in visual perception models. However, developing such attacks remains challenging due to diverse real-world environments and the requirement for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yun Xing , Nhat Chung , Jie Zhang , Yue Cao , Ivor Tsang , Yang Liu , Lei Ma , Qing Guo

For an image with multiple scene texts, different people may be interested in different text information. Current text-aware image captioning models are not able to generate distinctive captions according to various information needs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Anwen Hu , Shizhe Chen , Qin Jin

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

This paper presents ScaleCap, an inference-time scalable image captioning strategy that generates comprehensive and detailed image captions. The key challenges of high-quality image captioning lie in the inherent biases of LVLMs: multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Long Xing , Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Jinsong Li , Shuangrui Ding , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Feng Wu , Dahua Lin

Image captioning, an important vision-language task, often requires a tremendous number of finely labeled image-caption pairs for learning the underlying alignment between images and texts. In this paper, we proposed a multimodal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Changrong Xiao , Sean Xin Xu , Kunpeng Zhang

In this study, we introduce a novel cover image generation task that produces both a concise summary and a visually corresponding image from a given text-only document. Because no existing datasets are available for this task, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hyeyeon Kim , Sungwoo Han , Jingun Kwon , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Manabu Okumura

Image captioning, which generates natural language descriptions of the visual information in an image, is a crucial task in vision-language research. Previous models have typically addressed this task by aligning the generative capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xinting Huang , Yuchen Ren

While image captioning has gained significant attention, the potential of captioning time-series images, prevalent in areas like finance and healthcare, remains largely untapped. Existing time-series captioning methods typically offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Elizabeth Fons , Rachneet Kaur , Zhen Zeng , Soham Palande , Tucker Balch , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Manuela Veloso

While deep-learning models have been shown to perform well on image-to-text datasets, it is difficult to use them in practice for captioning images. This is because captions traditionally tend to be context-dependent and offer complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shinjini Ghosh , Sagnik Anupam

Current image captioning works usually focus on generating descriptions in an autoregressive manner. However, there are limited works that focus on generating descriptions non-autoregressively, which brings more decoding diversity. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yufeng He , Zefan Cai , Xu Gan , Baobao Chang

Entity-aware image captioning aims to describe named entities and events related to the image by utilizing the background knowledge in the associated article. This task remains challenging as it is difficult to learn the association between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Wentian Zhao , Yao Hu , Heda Wang , Xinxiao Wu , Jiebo Luo

Current deep learning models often achieve excellent results on benchmark image-to-text datasets but fail to generate texts that are useful in practice. We argue that to close this gap, it is vital to distinguish descriptions from captions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Elisa Kreiss , Fei Fang , Noah D. Goodman , Christopher Potts

It is well believed that the higher uncertainty in a word of the caption, the more inter-correlated context information is required to determine it. However, current image captioning methods usually consider the generation of all words in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Zhengcong Fei , Mingyuan Fan , Li Zhu , Junshi Huang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei

Controllable image captioning is an emerging multimodal topic that aims to describe the image with natural language following human purpose, $\textit{e.g.}$, looking at the specified regions or telling in a particular text style.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Junjie Fei , Hao Zheng , Yunlong Tang , Zhe Li , Mingqi Gao , Shanshan Zhao

Visual recognition in a low-data regime is challenging and often prone to overfitting. To mitigate this issue, several data augmentation strategies have been proposed. However, standard transformations, e.g., rotation, cropping, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Aniket Roy , Anshul Shah , Ketul Shah , Anirban Roy , Rama Chellappa